Sssh… peaceful. Thanks!
Freetar – an alternative front end for ultimate-guitar.com
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woah, me too! stopped during college and I decided to take guitar serious this time and get some lessons which i started in July. it's been a huge improvement and super fun. check out Plini and Intervals, some of my favorites in the same vein as Satriani. also, I've found guitar pro to really be worth it. Sheet Happens publishes official tabs, and all their PDF tab books come with guitar pro files as well and theyre…
FYI TuxGuitar is a FOSS player that can load/play/edit PowerTab and GuitarPro files. Multiplatform too. It's not completely 100% bug-free, but it's good enough to load and play most tabs flawlessly. Or for a more robust piece of software (especially if you do tabbing/composing yourself or you want to generate/edit a tab from a MIDI file), MuseScore is also FOSS and can import GuitarPro files no problem. With its rece…
i didn't realize musescore opened guitar pro 7/8 files (which is what sheet happens publishes)! sadly tux guitar support stopped at gp5. I will definitely be checking out musescore, thanks for the rec!
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#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
Realistically, he cannot contact all the thousands of content creators. Also I doubt that UG is paying them in any case. He should include author nicknames though. Hopefully, bro scraped the content in case UG bans him. There will not be good electric guitar music past 2010s anyway, so no missing out on new content...
Polyphia, though
I never really got into their stuff. Frankly, it's just too much. I definitely see why people like them- especially those who play music themselves. It's hard not to marvel at the technical skill on display. But imo from the music-as-a-tool-to-stir-some-emotion standpoint, they have some of the most sterile popular music I've ever heard. Wonder how the music-oriented HN crowd feels about this.
There definitely is amazing guitar music still being put out though, so I'm not sure what GP's on about. Huge fan of players like Guthrie Govan myself.
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#85If you can’t avoid mobile, use an alternative browser with built in blocking like Duck Duck Go or Firefox Focus or Brave. It works great for me, since my phone can rest easily on my digital piano sheet music stand.
Just avoid Chrome, since Google’s business model is all about you seeing the autoplay and full screen ads from UG.
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#86I wrote a CLI for it: https://codeberg.org/ltworf/ultimateultimateguitar
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#87I wonder if you could also add a way to show open and movable fingerings for chords on hover?
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#88Nitpick suggestion: Maybe link to Poetry for those of us not deeply in Python land? It was non-trivial for me to figure out that it’s some sort of package manager for Python. It’s also totally un-googleable so that didn’t help :-)
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#89Ooh, this is a godsend. UG is so full of dark patterns and nags it's almost unusable. It's a travesty and whoever runs such scam on community provided content should do some serious soul searching. Transposing chords doesn't seem to be implemented (or should the plus/minus buttons do that)?
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#90Yesss awesome! UG's UI has just gotten progressively worse over the years. It's one of those sites you wish had just paused at a certain point and just stopped with what they had.
Their app is even more annoying.